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Upcoming SEO Event on 6/24 – SEO for Realtors in Atlanta, Georgia

Sure, you can learn my secrets to SEO in three minutes (man that sounded like an infomercial) but you can get it straight from the source and from the experts in the business. Coming up on Wed, June 24 in Atlanta, GA, Network Solutions is hosting an event where you will get an in-depth look [...]

Zombies and Pinto Beans: A CrisisCamp Event Review

This past weekend, I attended CrisisCamp, an unconference (where the attendees structure the event and agenda) with the goal of applying technology and technological principles to humanitarian and disaster relief and crisis preparation.

Map to CrisisCamp session rooms, which were named after various calamities.
The attendees came from a diverse range of public, private, and NGO entities, [...]

Event Review: eDemocracy Camp 2

This past Sunday was the 2009 edition of the eDemocracy Camp unconference, at the particularly-apt location of the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet at George Washington University in DC.
I rolled in little after the introductory remarks but just before the sessions started (so I guess I missed the round-robin “three words” participant [...]

Upcoming Events: NewComm Forum and More

Okay, so Shashi’s too modest to mention it (well, actually, he’s not), but he’s going to be a featured speaker at next week’s New Communications Forum Conference (NewComm Forum 2009) in San Francisco, CA, April 27-29. It’s held by the Society for New Communications Research (or SNCR, which people actually do say as “snicker.”)
He and [...]

On the Ubiquity of Twitter Handles

I’m amused at how Twitter usernames are the current de rigueur accessory on people’s name tags at tech events, as well as the default destination whenever you see someone’s name hyperlinked on a Web page.
Naturally, the fashion originates and applies to we folks in the social media community and online marketing fields, which is still [...]

Interview with Robert Neelbauer of Social Matchbox

As I mentioned in my Social Matchbox DC event review, I was able to grab a few minutes with founder Robert Neelbauer to talk a little bit about the evolution of Social Matchbox DC (unofficial motto: “Speed Dating for Geeks”) and how it fits in with (and sits apart from) other DC tech networking events. [...]

Event Review: Social Matchbox DC

Thursday, April 2, at the Tenley Campus of American University in DC, saw another sold-out edition of the successful Social Matchbox DC networking event, headed up by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer. (See Shashi’s event preview blog post.)

Washington Post tech columnist Kim Hart has a good event writeup, which features a photo from our own Shashi [...]

Event Review: Government 2.0 Camp, Mar 27-28, 2009

Friday and Saturday of last week saw the inaugural Government 2.0 Camp unconference (an unconference is basically an unstructured conference, where every attendee is a participant and potential presenter. Some unconferences are like Fight Club — if it’s your first time, you have to present.)
Government 2.0 Camp was all about bringing together people — government, [...]

Upcoming March/April DC Area Tech and Social Media Events

In case you’re interested in meeting up with some of the blog team members (or more likely, have an interest in tech and social media-type events), here are a few things coming up in the DC area where there’s a good chance you’ll find us. (For more events, check out DC Tech Events and Gary’s [...]

Event Recap: SocStardom2, Featuring Dave Evans

After the SocStardom event with Frank Warren and Rohit Bhargava in January, as tends to occur when you bring together social media-minded people for discussion on an interesting topic led by good speakers, it will inevitably happen again — especially when it’s organized by Mayra Ruiz:

Once again hosted by Johns Hopkins University – Montgomery County [...]